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Prospect-Lefferts Gardens (TLC zone 188) sits where Crown Heights meets Flatbush, and its trips run both ways between them. From September 2025 to August 2026, 1,963,226 trips started here (about 5,379 a day), 14th of 61 Brooklyn zones, and 2,067,952 ended here. Weekdays have two near-equal rushes, at 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Saturdays run late, with steady demand from 6 p.m. to midnight.
These are TLC trip records for yellow, green and high-volume app (Uber, Lyft) trips, aggregated by TLC Help. Black car and livery trips that are not app-dispatched are not included.
Prospect-Lefferts Gardens at a glance
Zone 188 is a "Boro Zone" in TLC's lookup table. The label is for data and has no legal meaning. On TLC's map it borders six zones: Crown Heights South, East Flatbush/Farragut, East Flatbush/Remsen Village, Erasmus, Flatbush/Ditmas Park and Prospect Park.
Apps did 97.7% of pickups. Yellow taxis had 43,613 pickups (2.2%) and 65,247 drop-offs, so this is a place where yellow trips end more than they start. Green cabs had 988 pickups.
When rides start
On weekdays, the 8 a.m. hour (about 318 pickups) and the 5 p.m. hour (about 314) are almost tied. The 6 p.m. hour is close behind at about 307. Late morning and midday are about 30% quieter.
Saturdays build slowly and stay high late: from 6 p.m. to midnight, every hour has between about 341 and 368 pickups, with the top at 11 p.m. Sunday's busiest hour is midnight (about 323), the tail of Saturday night. Overall, a Saturday averages about 6,113 pickups, a Sunday 5,502 and a weekday 5,208.
Month by month
The busiest month was December 2025 (177,199 pickups) and the quietest September 2025 (147,050). From October on, every month stayed between about 154,000 and 177,000.
Yellow pickups ran at about 3,500 to 4,700 a month until May 2026, then roughly halved, to about 1,900 to 2,000 a month in June to August. The data doesn't show why.
Where trips go
The destinations split between Crown Heights to the north and Flatbush to the south and east:
- Prospect-Lefferts Gardens itself: 11.1%
- Crown Heights North: 9.5%
- Flatbush/Ditmas Park: 5.7%
- Crown Heights South: 5.2%
- East Flatbush/Farragut: 4.7%
- East Flatbush/Remsen Village: 4.3%
- Park Slope and Erasmus: 3.3% each
Arrivals come from the same places in nearly the same order.
Fares, trip length and driver pay
The median app trip is 2.47 miles and 15.6 minutes, with a $16.48 fare. The median driver pay is $14.05 before tips and tolls. Tips equal 3.4% of fares, $0.74 on average.
The map above shows a second measure: pay per hour with a passenger on board. Here it is $56.47, 57th of 61 in Brooklyn. In other words, pay per minute of trip time is lower than in most Brooklyn zones. That figure leaves out time driving to pickups and waiting, so real hourly earnings are lower. It is not TLC's minimum-pay calculation; for that, use the pay estimator.
Airport trips are 3.4% of app pickups, and 4.9% of app pickups were charged the Manhattan congestion fee: $1.50 per app trip, or $0.75 per taxi trip, as of 2026-10-12 (MTA).
Pickup rules here
All of zone 188 is in TLC's Hail Zone. Yellow and green cabs may take street hails. App drivers may only pick up riders sent by their base; a street pickup can bring a summons under 80-19(c)(1) (Chapter 80). More in who can pick up where. This is general information, not legal advice.
Stands: DOT's open data lists no relief stand, taxi stand or taxi/FHV pickup zone in zone 188 (checked October 12, 2026). Neighboring Erasmus has a relief stand on Beverley Road.
Nearby zones
Data on this page
Aggregates of public data. They describe trips and vehicles, never individual people.
Aggregated by TLC Help from TLC trip records, Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 (pickup date; TLC publishes trip files about two months after the month ends and may revise them). 'App' = high-volume for-hire services (Uber, Lyft). Taxi records with a negative fare (reversals) are excluded. Averages, medians and rates use 'clean' trips only: 1 minute to 4 hours, more than 0 and under 150 miles, fare above $0 and under $1,000. 'Fare' is the metered fare_amount for taxis and base_passenger_fare for app trips — before tolls, tips, taxes and surcharges — so it is not what the passenger paid in total. App driver_pay is TLC's 'total driver pay (not including tolls or tips and net of commission, surcharges, or taxes)'. Tips are separate. 'Per engaged hour' divides pay by passenger time only (pickup to drop-off). It leaves out time driving to pickups and waiting for requests, so real hourly earnings are lower; it is not the TLC minimum-pay formula. Monthly cells with 1–9 trips are shown as blank (null). Pairs with fewer than 10 trips are not listed.
- Prospect-Lefferts Gardens: trip facts by sector — Key trip facts for taxi zone 188 (Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn) by sector, 12 months.NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026Taxi tips: tip_amount records credit-card tips only (cash tips are not recorded), so taxi tip rates use credit-card trips (payment_type 1). App tips are the tips field on every trip. Tip rate = tips ÷ fare. Medians and rates need at least 250 trips in the cell (else blank); counts of 1–9 are blank. Pickup-side stats (fare, pay, tips) describe trips that START here.
- Prospect-Lefferts Gardens: when trips start, by hour — Average pickups per day in each hour in zone 188, on weekdays, Saturdays and Sundays (all sectors).NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026Average over all such days in the window, holidays included.
- Prospect-Lefferts Gardens: pickups by month — Trips starting in taxi zone 188 (Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn) each month, by sector.NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026
- Prospect-Lefferts Gardens: where trips from here go — Top drop-off zones for trips starting in zone 188, as a share of all its pickups (12 months, all sectors).NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026Out of 1,963,226 pickups. 'Outside NYC' = zone 265.
- Prospect-Lefferts Gardens: where trips to here come from — Top pickup zones for trips ending in zone 188, as a share of all its drop-offs (12 months, all sectors).NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026Out of 2,067,952 drop-offs.
- Prospect-Lefferts Gardens: when trips arrive, by hour — Average drop-offs per day in each hour in zone 188, on weekdays, Saturdays and Sundays (all sectors; hour of pickup).NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026Hour is the trip's pickup hour (TLC records both, but a trip is binned by when it started).
- Prospect-Lefferts Gardens: drop-offs by month — Trips ending in taxi zone 188 (Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn) each month, by sector.NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026
- All 263 taxi zones: trips and key facts (map-ready) — One row per TLC taxi zone (LocationID 1–263) with pickups, drop-offs, sector mix, app driver pay, fares and tip rates — the source for zone maps, hubs and the zone explorer.NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026Medians/rates need ≥250 trips (else null). labels are LocationIDs as strings; zones[] has names, boroughs, service_zone (from taxi_zone_lookup.csv), suggested slugs and neighbouring zone ids (shared boundary, from taxi_zones.zip).
Frequently asked questions
How many Uber and Lyft pickups are there in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens?
About 5,257 app pickups a day. In the 12 months to August 2026, 1,963,226 trips started in zone 188, 14th of 61 Brooklyn zones, and apps did 97.7% of them.
Where do trips from Prospect-Lefferts Gardens go?
11.1% stay in the zone and 9.5% go to Crown Heights North. Next come Flatbush/Ditmas Park (5.7%), Crown Heights South (5.2%) and East Flatbush/Farragut (4.7%). The top ten destinations, all in Brooklyn, take 52.3% of pickups.
What is the median pay for an app trip from here?
$14.05 per trip before tips and tolls, for a median trip of 2.47 miles and 15.6 minutes. That is close to the Brooklyn zone median of $13.90.
Sources
Last reviewed against the official sources on .
- NYC TLC Trip Record Data nyc.gov
- TLC Taxi Zone Lookup Table d37ci6vzurychx.cloudfront.net
- NYC Open Data: Taxi and FHV Relief Stands (DOT, vqu8-xef9) data.cityofnewyork.us
- NYC Open Data: Parking Regulation Locations and Signs (DOT, nfid-uabd) data.cityofnewyork.us
- TLC Rules Chapter 80: Rules Applicable to All Drivers (PDF) nyc.gov
- MTA: Congestion Relief Zone taxi and FHV tolls mta.info
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